“Clues that may unlock cures for heart disease and stroke are hiding in smartphones, fitness trackers, in genomic data, and within medical records,” Hampton Roads American Heart Association Board President Dr....

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Residents of Hampton Roads are invited to join a new program aimed to help advance research to find cures for heart disease and stroke.
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An elated William R. "Bill" Harvey, president of Hampton University, announced Friday that the university had received a $13.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Doctors are calling obesity an epidemic and the nation's greatest health crisis.
What is obesity?
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